I wish I had one. Personally I’d be even ready for meetups but I’m hetero and apparently it’s mostly bi or homosexual men who are into furry stuff. That’s not supposed to be condescending, and of course you can have fun without being sexual about it, but it’s simply nothing I want to get into, because it turns me off. Also they are expensive, which I might be able to afford but not with the above issue still present. So it’s going to stay a dream forever, unless there’s suddenly a huge trend of hetero furries in my area, which I doubt. Or I find a girlfriend who’s into this and we wear a suit together, which would be super cute.
I want one and would want to make one myself, but I lack the time and money to do so. I’m more of the type of person who wants to make one for myself purely for the experience of doing so, as I don’t interact with the local furry community at all.
I have one, which I made myself (cheaper than buying from a maker, if you have the crafting skills to make it look decent - it actually took me about two years to make because I wanted to do a good job with it). But I don’t get to use it all that often, as my only option locally is the fantasy/sci-fi/comic convention in August - and the last couple of summers have been way too hot for me to be fursuiting in the sunshine! I enjoy it when the weather’s cool enough though, because there’s no other furries that go to that convention, so I really stand out - which is great for interactions with both other cosplayers and the general public. That’s the only reason I fursuit really. It’s fun being a big fluffy tiger booping Sith lords and pretending to be killed by a Dalek.
There’s meetups about 100 miles away that I used to go to, but the whole group is just far too dramatic for me. I do not have the energy for that much compulsive backstabbing! Which is a shame, because it would be nicer to get to use my fursuit more often. There is something special about fursuiting in a group.
I am aware of things like using fans in the heads and wearing cool vests to help with that. The only first hand experience I have is wearing my college mascot suit once, and it was indeed quite hot, but not stuffy.
It’s a $3000 suit you can only wear to conventions that are halfway across the country. Which is to say I’d love to own one, but there’s no way I can justify buying one.
@l_b_i I consider myself to be much more the fursuiter than a generic "furry", and fursuits to be the tool to transform me into my spirit animals
Some suits are personal character suits, some are play suits
But in the recent years i am increasingly developing technically new ideas and try to get suits done that allow me to aquire capabilities other than plain human, and to explore physically different parts of the world and experiences that suiters have never explored before
For the most part I think it’s like most things in life. If it’s not for me, but its also not hurting anyone, it’s fine. Let people live their lives. And that’s really the case with this. I’m not personally into it. I dont really follow the community or go looking for it. But I know people who are in the community, and that’s cool. It makes them happy. Even the AD stuff.
With all that said, if one of them brought over a fur suit for me and said they had an extra ticket to go to a convention, I’d probably do it. It could be fun. Like a Halloween convention with the theme.
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